Honfleur welcomes 3,5 millions visitors every year. It's the 13th most visited town in France. Attracted by the special quality of the light by the estuary, painters started coming to Honfleur in the 18th century. But it's really in the early 19th century, that they came here in numbers. Normandy is the birthplace of Impressionism specially along the river Seine.

In Honfleur, an important artistic center came up and a serie of painters put their easel here: Turner, Corot, Boudin, Jongkind, Monet…

Honfleur is surrounded by two hills, the Côte Vassale and the Côte de Grâce which overlook the old town. It's a natural site with a beautiful wooded landscape on one side and the Estuary on the other side. On the top of one hill is located the Notre Dame de Grâce Chapel, one of the oldest sanctuary of the region. Every year on Whit Monday, during the Sailor's festival, there is a pilgramage to the Chapel.

There are four, two-sided markers located at the Carrousel à Honfleur.

E. Marker is in Honfleur, Basse-Normandie, in Calvados Département. Marker is at the intersection of Quai de la Quarantaine and Quai Saint-Etienne, on the right when traveling east on Quai de la Quarantaine. Touch for map. Marker is in this post office area: Honfleur, Basse-Normandie 14600, France.

Historical postcard view of the Chappele de Notre-Dame-de-Grâce (mentioned on marker). The Chapel was built in the 17th Century on land donated my Mme. Montpensier, upon the foundations of an earlier chapel constructed during the reign of Richard II, Duke of Normandy, in the 11th Century.

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